HISTORY OF RECONSTRUCTION AFTER TOTAL GASTRECTOMY

Nearly a century has passed since Schlatter(1) carried out the first s uccessful total gastrectomy and antecolic end-to-side oesophagojejunos tomy in 1897 in Zurich. Actually, fourteen years before, Connect attem pted a total gastrectomy, but his patient died on the operating table. From the first success, a large number of different procedures have p opulated the worldwide Literature, with a lot of papers reporting 'ori ginal' techniques or data about the functional outcome.